Crock Pot Veggie Loaded Spaghetti Sauce Recipes

CROCKPOT SPAGHETTI

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
• Add onions, bell peppers, shallot, carrot, celery and garlic and cook until tender and onion is translucent. Transfer to slow cooker.
• Brown sausage and ground beef in the same skillet, drain fat, and transfer to slow cooker.
• Add tomato sauce, crushed tomatoes, salt and pepper, sugar, and Italian seasoning.
• Add one cup of water and stir. Liquids do not evaporate in the slow cooker so if the sauce is still too thick, add water, 1/4 cup at a time, until sauce reaches desired consistency.
• Cook on low for 6-8 hours or on high for 3-4 hours.
• Serve over hot cooked spaghetti.

VEGETARIAN CROCK POT SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Cook onions and carrots in oil in large nonstick skillet over medium heat.
• Stir and cook for 4-5 minutes until tender. Add mushrooms and bell pepper and stir. Place vegetables into bottom of 4-5 quart crock pot and add remaining ingredients except spaghetti pasta and cheese.
• Cover crock pot and cook on low for 7-8 hours.
• Uncover, stir thoroughly, then leave cover off crock pot and turn heat to high.
• Cook, uncovered, for 1 more hour to thicken sauce.
• At this point the sauce can be frozen. Divide into smaller portions and cool in refrigerator.
• Wrap, label, and freeze the sauce up to 3 months.
• To thaw and reheat, thaw sauce overnight in refrigerator.
• Pour into skillet and heat over medium heat, stirring frequently, about 15-20 minutes or until sauce bubbles and is thoroughly heated.
• You can even cook the pasta until almost tender and combine it with the cooled sauce. Freeze as directed, and thaw as directed. You may need to add 1/4-1/3 cup water when reheating if freezing the pasta in the sauce.
• Or you can go ahead and serve sauce with cooked spaghetti and grated Parmesan cheese. 6 servings.

SLOW-COOKER VEGETABLE SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• In 10-inch skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add onion and carrots; cook 3 to 4 minutes, stirring occasionally, until crisp-tender. Stir in mushrooms and bell pepper.
• In 4- to 5-quart slow cooker, place vegetables. Stir in remaining ingredients except spaghetti and cheese.
• Cover; cook on Low heat setting 7 hours.
• Uncover; stir well. Increase heat setting to High; cook uncovered about 1 hour longer or until sauce is desired consistency.
• Cook and drain spaghetti as directed on package. Serve sauce over spaghetti; sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Note: This recipe was tested in slow cookers with heating elements in the side and bottom of the cooker, not in cookers that stand only on a heated base. For slow cookers with just a heated base, follow the manufacturer's directions for layering ingredients and choosing a temperature.

VEGETARIAN SLOW COOKER SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Cut peppers and onions and place in crockpot.
• Add remaining ingredients and stir well.
• Cover and cook on high for 4 hours or on low for 6 hours.
• Serve over any type of pasta, enjoy!

LOADED VEGGIE PASTA SAUCE- SLOW COOKER

Steps:

• 1. In a large slow cooker, combine eggplant, peppers, onion, and garlic.
• 2. Add undrained tomatoes, tomato paste, brown sugar, Italian seasoning, and red pepper; stir well.
• 3. Cover and cook on low for 9-10 hours.
• 4. Use half the sauce in the Double Loaded Veggie Lasagna (also listed on JAP.) The rest may be served over your choice of pasta.
• 5. Nutritional Info for sauce only--- 76 calories per cup (Yep that's right!!) 1.3g fat (0.2g saturated) 2mg cholesterol 26mg sodium 15.9g carbs (4.5g dietary fiber 9.7g sugars) 2.9g protein

SEMI-HOMEMADE CROCK POT SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• finely dice green, yellow and red bell peppers and onions real small.
• heat oil in large deep pan at medium high heat until hot.
• add the diced vegetables and half the minced garlic, half the salt and half the pepper.
• cook the vegetable mixture stirring constantly (like stir-fry) until slightly softened.
• add the ground chuck to the pan with the vegetable mixture and brown until no longer pink.
• drain and put in the bottom of the slow cooker and turn on low.
• in a small mixing bowl add sauce, shredded Parmesan cheese (shredded works better than grated for this recipe), basil, oregano, the rest of the minced garlic, salt and pepper and mix well.
• pour sauce mixture over the meat mixture in the slow cooker and mix both the meat and sauce mixtures together well.
• cook on low 4-6 hours.
• use over the pasta of your choice but we prefer spaghetti or fettuccine use a heavy pasta.

SLOW COOKER VEGGIE-LOADED MARINARA

Steps:

• Combine all the ingredients in slow cooker and cook on low for 6 hours. Remove the bay leaf. Blend with an immersion blender to the desired consistency. Adjust the seasonings to taste.